How Can I Use Student Evaluations to Improve My Teaching?

This step-by-step guide is designed to help you author questions for and glean the most useful information from your end-of-course evaluations.

While evaluations are neither perfect nor a holistic measure of teaching effectiveness, there’s still important information that can be gleaned from them. They can give you valuable insight into your course(s) to ultimately help improve your teaching—but first, you must filter out the noise.

To motivate students to complete end-of-course evaluations and to provide you more useful feedback, talk with them about the importance of course evaluations and how you use their feedback.

A recent analysis seeks to make sense of what's really going on with respect to gender and other kinds of bias and teaching evaluations. It offers suggestions for meaningful evaluations during COVID-19 and beyond.